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Perhaps one day when I am unconscious or walking in my sleep I may go and spit upon poor Edward's grave. It seems about the most unlikely thing I could do; but there it is. No, I remember no emotion of any sort, but just the clear feeling that one has from time to time when one hears that some Mrs So-and-So is au mieux with a certain gentleman. It made things plainer, suddenly, to my curiosity.
La Fontaine and other fabulists maintained that the wolf, even in morals, stood higher than man; and in view of the late civil war, Adams had doubts of his own on the facts of moral evolution: "Tout bien considere, je te soutiens en somme, Que scelerat pour scelerat, Il vaut mieux etre un loup qu'un homme." It might well be!
Lady Cecilia again smiled, and said, "Very natural; and after all not very certain that the Lady Blanche is like this picture, which was not drawn for her or from her assuredly a resemblance found only in the imagination, to which we are, all of us, more or less, dupes; and tant mieux say I tant pis says mamma and all mothers." "There is one thing I like better in Mr.
In her view, you are just a harmless nobody, whose society she tolerates for kindness' sake and faute de mieux. It is precisely because she deems you a nobody because she is profoundly conscious of the gulf that separates you from her that she can condescend to be amiably familiar. If you were of a rank even remotely approximating to her own, she would be a thousand times more circumspect.
His strangeness or distortion, his profound subjectivity, his passionateness the cor laceratum Rousseau makes all men in love with these. Je ne suis fait comme aucun de ceux que j'ai sus. Mais si je ne vaux pas mieux, au moins je suis autre. "I am not made like any one else I have ever known: yet, if I am not better, at least I am different."
Captain Lascelles at first tried to be au mieux with the only young lady present; but he didn't make much way, and began to think her rather stupid, and to wish that those lively girls his friend Bertie had told him of would swim or paddle themselves across. To Bluebell the evening was little short of purgatory. Never had she known Du Meresq so altered.
I do wish you could see them together. The poilu would hug Tommy and plant a kiss on each of his cheeks if he dared. But, needless to say, that is the last sort of thing Tommy wants. So, faute de mieux the poilu walks as close to Tommy as he can when he gets a chance and the undemonstrative, sure-of-himself Tommy permits it without a smile which is doing well.
MY DEAR FRIEND: You will have known, long before this, from the office, that the departments are not cast as you wished; for Lord Halifax, as senior, had of course his choice, and chose the southern, upon account of the colonies. The Ministry, such as it is, is now settled 'en attendant mieux'; but, in, my opinion cannot, as they are, meet the parliament.
" Mon Dieu! repond Smiley, toujours d'un air degage, elle est bonne pour une chose a mon avis, elle peut battre en sautant toute grenouille du comte de Calaveras. "L'individu reprend la boite, l'examine de nouveau longuement, et la rend a Smiley en disant d'un air delibere: Eh bien! je ne vois pas que cette grenouille ait rien de mieux qu'aucune grenouille.
"Are you really a friend of ours?" she asked, "or did you just come here faute de mieux?" The little French phrase came like an unexpected jewel, as if she had relapsed unconsciously into a more familiar language. I was strangely confused by the fact of our being alone together. I had an entirely unwarranted feeling that we were about to make up a quarrel.
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